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Fast vaccine offers hope in battle with Ebola

Nature volume 424, page 602 (2003)Cite this article

High-speed vaccines could help to contain unexpected outbreaks of disease, say US researchers who have developed a fast-acting vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus.

The new vaccine, reported in this issue of Nature (see page 681), gives macaque monkeys protection from Ebola infection only four weeks after a single jab. Previous Ebola vaccines took six months and multiple boosters to confer immunity.

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Clarke, T., Knight, J. Fast vaccine offers hope in battle with Ebola. Nature 424, 602 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424602a

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